Academic transformation : the road to college success /

Sellers, De.,

Academic transformation : the road to college success / [print] De Sellers, Carol W. Dochen, Russ Hodges. - second edition. - Boston, Massachusetts : Allyn and Bacon/Pearson, 2011. - xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies and index.

Packing the essentials: toothbrush? check! backpack? check! commitment? check! -- The Road to autonomous learning: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm making good time -- Thinking and intellectual performance: I think, ergo I learn -- Learning in class: but I slept through that class in high school -- Learning outside class: outside of class?!? the brochure didn't say anything about this -- Academic learning and neural development: my, what big dendrites you have -- Preparing for performance: lights, camera, action! -- Establishing direction in your life: the promised land -- Self-regulation, will, and motivation: I know I can, I know I can -- Strengthening academic self-regulation: pumping iron (will) -- Making behaviors work for you: walking the academic tightrope -- Patterns in human development: all these people are like me? -- Exploring the diversity of individuality: I've just gotta be me -- Appropriate stress reduction techniques: aaugh *% # and!@ (I feel much better now) -- Overcoming specific academic anxieties.



9780137007561

2010000648


Study skills.
Learning, Psychology of.
Academic achievement.
College student orientation.

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